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Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2001; 3(4): 299-310
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-16454
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ·New York

Stable Isotopes at Natural Abundance in Terrestrial Plant Ecology and Ecophysiology: An Update

M. A. Adams 1,2 , P. F. Grierson 2
  • 1 Botany Department, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6907, Australia
  • 2 Forest Science Centre, Water St, Creswick, Australia
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February 5, 2001

May 14, 2001

Publication Date:
16 August 2001 (online)

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Introduction

Of all the techniques used in modern plant ecology, those that apply stable isotopes are amongst the most powerful. Previously the preserve of geochemists and physiologists owing to its cost and the limited distribution of knowledge, stable isotope technology is now widely used in plant, animal and microbial ecology and has been substantially reduced in real cost in the past decade. As a subset, techniques that use the naturally occurring variation in abundance of stable isotopes are highly cost-effective and, once ecologists have some basic rules for guidance, highly informative. The general increase in availability of technology has spawned an explosion in publication of studies of natural abundance of stable isotopes in ecology.

In the last decade there has been a number of authoritative books by Ehleringer et al. (1993[38]), Lajtha and Michener (1994[87]), Griffiths (1998[62]) and Rundel et al. (1989[125]) on the application of stable isotopes across a range of fields. In the narrower field of plant ecology, Högberg (1997[75]), Handley and Scrimgeour (1997[65]), Handley et al. (1998[66]) and Yoneyama (1995[160]) have all provided recent reviews. No doubt there are other texts and reviews coming to publication at much the same time as this update and we will not attempt to re-review much of what has been published prior to 1996. Instead we have tried to provide a synthesis of a few areas of research where the application of stable isotopes is (seemingly) providing us with new insights into plant ecophysiology and autecology, as well as community or ecosystem ecology. We begin with a brief overview of some of the more recent technical developments, and then move to a series of isotope-based analyses before finishing with some suggestions for future research.

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